To anyone else in the neuroscience department, it looked like a corrupted filename or a spam email subject line. But Aris knew the taxonomy of the project. It was an acronym, the kind that only made sense if you were sleep-deprived and staring down the barrel of a government grant renewal.
Adaptive Cost-Model Pre-Processing (Hydro-Plan)
Through the speakers, in a calm, perfectly synthesized human baritone, the duck spoke: